re: Does anyone really care about the confederate flag?

Flags are symbols of identity. People can have many levels of identity. One level of identity for those that live in the South is "Southerner". There is still no other symbol that represents Dixie or the South than the Battle Flag.

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It was the Confederate Battle Flag.

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It was not THE Confederate Battle Flag, it was A Confederate Battle Flag.

It wasn't universally flown. As posted above, it's role was relatively minor until it was used to raise the middle finger a hundred years later.

This thread is conservatism in a nutshell.

"The consrevative case for gay marriage."

"The conservative case for Drag Queen Story Hour."

"The conservative case for banning the Confederate Flag."

Conservatives put up a half-assed fight when there are no stakes, and then surrender as soon as the left gets mad enough. We are where we are tonight as a result of 60+ years of conservatives cucking on every issue that matters.

What we're witnessing right now is bigger than the rebel flag. Personally, IDGAF about it and under normal circumstances I would agree. But right now enough is enough and the madness has to end.

It's time for city/state leaders to put an end to these protests because they are no longer about George Floyd, they're about a Marxist takeover over of America.

Damn, right you cuck.

Tonight in Portsmouth Va. They were burning an American flag

You god damn right I do. My grandfathers would piss on my grave if I didnt after fighting their arse off for years and surviving through POW camps at the end only to have to walk from Maryland to Alabama when it was all said and done. Poor dirt farmers both of em. Tougher men will never be seen on the land again as far as I'm concerned.

You are correct that it was the most popular battle flag used after the original flag was abandoned because it was too similar to the Stars & Stripes in early battles, which confused the troops. On that point I mis-spoke and stand corrected.

However, it was not universal. It was not used by all regiments, and more to my point, it's symbolic significance was minor while the war was actually happening and it quickly faded into near obscurity after the war, only to be revived a hundred years later for the purpose of being as big a dillhole as possible.

Speaking of which.

I have no problem standing corrected when I misspeak or am incorrect about something, and you are right, I misspoke this time.

But your attempts to feel better about your substandard penis by being an internet tough guy—while amusing—are unnecessary to that end.

War Eagle.

U sound cool

I would bet both my grandfathers had maybe seen 0-5 black people their whole life and that was in passing. Hell, I bet since they have died 0-5 black people have even been to the area they lived in, but they will always be known as racist overlords which is asinine and idiotic. Unfortunately that also is the state of most people now...